By: Abudu Olalekan So. Tuesday, February 3. Stakeholder room at the Lagos Assembly. Wet wood smell from the chairs. Hum of generators outside. Mr. Noheem Adams – chair of that ad-hoc committee set up by Speaker Obasa last month – leans into the mic. Says it plain: All demolitions in Makoko, Oko-Agbon, Shogunro? Stopped. Effective…
By: Abudu Olalekan So. The COP30 Presidency sent their 12th letter. 114 civil society groups hit reply – with an open letter that’s blunt. It’s addressed to President André Corrêa do Lago. The message? Simple. Without real political muscle and a truly inclusive process, the fossil fuel transition roadmap risks becoming just another paper. The…
by: Oluwaseun M. Lawal The hall at the National Ecumenical Centre in Abuja was quiet, almost heavy, on Tuesday night. No campaign noise. No politics-as-usual. Just candles, hymns, and the soft echo of footsteps as senators, family members and old friends filed in to say goodbye to Senator Okechukwu Ezea, the man who carried Enugu…
by: Oluwaseun M. Lawal The hall in Abuja was quiet for a moment. Cameras ready. Then Brig-Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (rtd) leaned into the microphone and basically said: we can’t keep fighting drugs with handcuffs alone. Not anymore. On Tuesday, the NDLEA Chairman and Chief Executive was not talking about another raid or big seizure….
by: Oluwaseun M. Lawal The House of Representatives settled into their seats on Tuesday, it was clear they were not gathered for routine talk. They were there to ask a simple but very uncomfortable question: for almost twenty years of airport and seaport concessions, has Nigeria been short‑changed or not? Speaker Tajudeen Abbas set the…
by: Oluwaseun M. Lawal The message from Aso Rock came in a calm, formal voice. But it carried a clear warning. No more wait-until-the-road-fails style of governance. In Abuja on Tuesday, at the 2026 Roads Summit themed “Sustainable Road Infrastructure for National Growth”, President Bola Tinubu – represented by the Secretary to the Government of the…
